You would be surprised--I'd say 95% of conservatives believe FDR was the "Father of Liberalism". He certainly was not. He proposed and initiated some social programs, but he did not spend 65% of the budget on them like we are today.
LBJ is the TRUE father of Marxism.
Richard Nixon, George Herbert Walker Bush and George Bush have been the biggest increasers of Marxism since LBJ. Only Ronald Reagan reversed course since LBJ.
I would say that statement is a wee bit of an exaggeration.
I agree. We have been brainwashed by politicians from both parties. We are lead to believe that a reduction in a planned spending increase (say a 3% increase rather than 5%) is actually a spending cut. This is BS and anybody with any sense knows it. If my family is short on money, we spend less -- almost every family in America has done this, but this idea is foreign to Washington.
I see you're taking some flak for this, so let me say that I think you are spot on.
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LBJ is the TRUE father of Marxism.
Richard Nixon, George Herbert Walker Bush and George Bush have been the biggest increasers of Marxism since LBJ. Only Ronald Reagan reversed course since LBJ.
Disability was introduced in 1950, though at first limited to those at or above the age of 50. That was dropped within a few years. An extra allowance for the dependents of those on disability was also added in the '50s.
It wasn't until Dick Nixon's administration that yearly increases in social security payments were automatic -- originally, they had to be voted on by Congress. Also, Social Security in general expanded from a supplement to a pension program only in the 1970s.
It's safe to say that all kinds of government programs began modestly under FDR but steadily expanded afterwards.
As Harry Hopkins, assistant to FDR (and Soviet agent) once said, "tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect."